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ROBIN
  Bird Call
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14 cm long and weighs approx. 18 g. Very distinctive appearance: Upperparts warm brown with olive tinge; breast, sides of its head and forehead are an intense orange bordered with a narrow bluish band. Males and females have the same colouring. Juveniles lack the red front but have dark brown plumage spotted with yellow-brown and a mottled brownish breast. Robins have a plump appearance. They twitch their tail and wings often, a characteristic often observed on the ground.
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| Call: |
The contact call is a highly characteristic hard, twittering tick-ick-ick, often delivered in an almost stuttering tempo. The Robin's slow and melancholy song is varied, but usually begins with sharp, high-pitched tones and ends with fluting and bubbly passages that taper off.
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| Habitat: |
Found in larger gardens, parks, and deciduous, mixed and coniferous woodlands with ground cover. Many Robins overwinter in Central and Western Europe (partial migrants) and can be spotted at bird tables.
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| Distribution: |
Robins are widespread across almost all of Europe and the Near East.
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| Biology: |
Robins feed on insects, worms, snails and small invertebrates but they also eat berries. The nest is made of plant matter and is woven between the roots of trees or in other hollows. The clutch consists of between 5 and 7 lightly coloured eggs with varying degrees of dark mottling. 2 broods a year; clutches from the end of April/early May.
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